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62: 'Calling a woman a "terf" is just a new way of calling her a "witch"'

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🗓️ 24 November 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this week’s spiked podcast: Brendan O’Neill on the problem with labelling women ‘terfs’, Rob Lyons on Hammond’s safety-first budget, and Nico Perrino on the problem of campus censorship in the US. spiked-online.com

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and I'm the assistant editor at Spiked. And this week we return to the transgender discussion with Brendan O'Neill on the labelling of women as turf's. I also talk to Rob Lyons about Philip Hammond's safety first budget and

0:34.8

Nico Perino from Fire who tells me about a recent crazy case of censorship on a

0:40.6

US campus. Last week we spoke to

0:45.0

last week we spoke to

0:50.0

clear Fox about the silencing of debate around transgender politics,

0:57.0

and since then there have been several cases of exactly this happening.

1:01.0

Dr Heather Brunswick Evans, an academic and feminist, is being investigated by the

1:06.3

Women's Equality Party, of which she is a member, for raising concerns about intervention for

1:11.7

trans children. Then there's Lily Madigan, a young

1:14.8

trans woman who has been elected as a local Labour Party women's officer. Madigan

1:19.8

when she was a teenage boy just a year ago helped to oust another women's officer, Anne Rosillo, for allegedly being transphobic.

1:28.0

Both these women, Rosillo and Brunskelevins have been called Turfs, trans exclusionary radical feminists,

1:36.1

and they have been really quite horribly abused online.

1:40.1

So what's going on?

1:41.9

Why are women being silenced in the discussion of gender?

1:45.0

I decided to speak to our editor Brendan O'Neill who is currently in New York about the problem with crying turf.

1:52.0

So Brendan this week in particular, there have been several controversies about transgender politics.

1:58.0

There was the big fury after last week's moral maids on Radio 4,

2:01.0

where Dr Heather Bronzeunskeau Evans kind of really gently raised

2:05.3

concerns about intervention for trans kids and the course of a discussion about

2:09.3

transgender politics and she has been you know really kind of hounded on social the women's equality party of which she's a member is now investigating her

2:19.2

for transphobia and then there was also the story about Lily Madigan, who is a young trans woman, recently a 19 year

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